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Senior UN official in DPRK for talks on nuclear crisis

The United Nations under-secretary for political affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, is currently in the DPRK looking to defuse the soaring tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. It's the first visit by such a high-ranking UN diplomat in seven years, and it comes a day after the United States and South Korea launched their biggest-ever joint air exercise, involving 230 aircraft and tens of thousands of troops. Pyongyang has slammed the maneuvers as an "all-out provocation".